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1 online resource (xi, 299 pages) |
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Critical companions |
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Critical companions (London, England)
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| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Complete list of plays by Brian Friel; Unpublished Stage Plays; Radio Plays; Published Stage Plays (in order of staging); Chapter 1 Situating Friel; Putting down the Markers; Plan of the Book; Chapter 2 Coming of Age: Philadelpia, Here I Come!; Introduction; Philadelphia and Emigration; Guthrie, Ritual, Subversion; Visitations and the Divided Self; Conclusion: What is the Architecture?; Chapter 3 Formation of an aesthetic: the loves of cass mcguire and crystal and fox; Introduction; The Loves of Cass McGuire and Metatheatre; Memory |
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Dream versus RealityCrystal and Fox and the Representation of Love; Chapter 4 Speaking out: The freedom of the city and volunteers; Introduction; The Play and the Play-within-the-Play; Freedom of the City as Theatre of Commitment; Volunteers; Language, Image, Theme; Chapter 5 Uncertainty, memory, tragedy: Living quarters and faith healer; Introduction; Living Quarters and the Representation of Suicide; Faith Healer as Avant-Garde Tragedy; The Play; Occupation and Identity; Metaphor and Catastrophe; Ritual, The Actor and the Audience |
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Chapter 6 A kind of trilogy: Making history, translations and the home placeIntroduction; Making History; Translations; Language and Authenticity; Field Day and the Abbey Model; Themes and Meaning; Father and Sons: A Conclusion; The Home Place; History as Tragedy; Chapter 7 The chekhov factor and gender issues: Aristocrats, dancing at lughnasa and molly sweeney; Introduction; Aristocrats; Dancing at Lughnasa; A Man's World?; The Debate: A Coda; Molly Sweeney; A Farewell to Field Day; Blindness and Metaphor; A Woman's World |
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Chapter 8 'The vodka-and-tonic society': Wonderful tennessee and give me your answer, do!Introduction; Wonderful Tennessee and the Power of Place; Give Me Your Answer, Do!; Family Matters and Outcome; Reception; Chapter 9 Performances and a general conclusion; Introduction: The Food of Love; The Great Debate; General Conclusion: Friel at Play; Chapter 10 Critical Perspectives; Placed Identities for Placeless Times: Brian Friel and Postcolonial Criticism; The Failed Words of Brian Friel; Memory, Art, Lieux de Mémoire in Brian Friel's The Home Place1; Art as Site of Memory |
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Cultural Memory in The Home PlaceThe Mystery of Art as a Guide to Homecoming; Notes; Chapter 1: Situating Friel; Chapter 2: Coming of Age: Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Chapter 3: Formation of an Aesthetic; Chapter 4: Speaking Out: The Freedom of the City and Volunteers; Chapter 5: Living Quarters and Faith Healer; Chapter 6: A Kind of Trilogy: Making History, Translations and The Home Place; Chapter 7: Aristocrats, Dancing at Lughnasa and Molly Sweeney; Chapter 8: Wonderful Tennessee and Give Me Your Answer, Do!; Chapter 9: Performances and a General Conclusion |
| Summary |
"Brian Friel is Ireland's foremost living playwright, whose work spans fifty years and has won numerous awards, including three Tonys and a Lifetime Achievement Arts Award. Author of twenty-five plays, and whose work is studied at GCSE and A level (UK), and the Leaving Certificate (Ire), besides at undergraduate level, he is regarded as a classic in contemporary drama studies. Christopher Murray's Critical Companion is the definitive guide to Friel's work, offering both a detailed study of individual plays and an exploration of Friel's dual commitment to tradition and modernity across his oeuvre. Beginning with Friel's 1964 work Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Christopher Murray follows a broadly chronological route through the principle plays, including Aristocrats, Faith Healer, Translations, Dancing at Lughnasa, Molly Sweeney and The Home Place. Along the way it considers themes of exile, politics, fathers and sons, belief and ritual, history, memory, gender inequality, and loss, all set against the dialectic of tradition and modernity. It is supplemented by essays from Shaun Richards, David Krause and Csilla Bertha providing varying critical perspectives on the playwright's work"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Friel, Brian -- Criticism and interpretation
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Friel, Brian -- Themes, motives
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| SUBJECT |
Friel, Brian fast |
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Friel, Brian 1929-2015 gnd |
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Dialectic in literature.
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Dialectic in literature
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Literature
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Themes, motives
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| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- In literature
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Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781408154519 |
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140815451X |
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9781408166383 |
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1408166380 |
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